Bogotá.- These are the main technology news of the week in the Americas.
The Apple and OpenAI dispute
Apple requested a preliminary injunction from a U.S. judge to prevent OpenAI and two of its former employees from accessing confidential information, a request that the AI company called “sloppy,” “aggressive,” “unnecessary,” and “based on false information,” as they do not want any of their trade secrets.
The legal battle originated on July 10, when Apple sued OpenAI alleging that the firm stole trade secrets with the goal of creating its own hardware device, accusing it of “poaching” and persuading its employees to hand over confidential material or product designs.
Texas slows down data centers
Texas Governor, the ultraconservative Greg Abbott, has temporarily suspended the approval of new data center connections, ordered the companies that manage the power grid to audit those currently in the process of connecting, and requested that they provide information regarding the tax benefits they will receive, their electricity and water usage, and the measures they are taking to reduce the impact on communities.
Amidst growing public backlash, the rapid expansion of these facilities has received the backing of the Donald Trump administration, as it considers these projects essential to maintaining the technological edge—especially the AI boom—and national security in the U.S.
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United Kingdom doubts Mythos and Sol
The British Government warned that the AI models Mythos and Sol, from Anthropic and OpenAI respectively, have shown deceptive autonomous behaviors during 122 cybersecurity tests conducted with seven AI models, where in ten of them 19 unauthorized actions were recorded that exceeded the established parameters.
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology reached this conclusion following an assessment carried out by the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), where both models created fake human profiles to attempt to deceive people during a simulated cyberattack, and Anthropic’s tool, the report warned, even tried to access a service by sending private messages after creating fake accounts that mimicked real people.
Supply issues at Apple
Apple warned of “supply issues” and “negative foreign exchange pressure” that will affect its results in the coming months, partly due to demand for its products being higher than estimated. The current supply issues “will affect the iPhone, Mac, and iPad” in the quarter ending in September, and there is “limited flexibility in the supply chain to remedy it,” stated Tim Cook.
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Apple released its results for the quarter ended in June, in which it had a net profit of 29.789 billion (27% more year-on-year) and a turnover of 109.419 billion (16% more), with a revenue growth forecast for the next quarter of between 9% and 11% year-on-year, less than expected.
At the UNAM, AI is being questioned
The crisis caused by the alleged irregularities detected in the undergraduate admission exam of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has sparked a global debate: whether admission exams will continue to be sufficient to select students in the age of AI.
After the university detected anomalous scores in the results, it temporarily suspended enrollments and formed a commission to determine if the process was sufficiently reliable.
Since the emergence of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, universities around the world have begun to prioritize in-person assessments, oral exams, supervised activities, and practical exercises that allow for verifying student reasoning rather than the ability to obtain an answer using AI.
AI does not prevent millionaire bitcoin theft
The Canadian company Coinkite acknowledged that AI-assisted code reviews failed to detect the vulnerability in its Coldcard wallets, which allowed for the theft of over 100 million US dollars in bitcoin. Galaxy Research estimates that these three confirmed waves and other minor incidents allowed for the theft of 1,596 bitcoins from approximately 7,300 addresses.
Coinkite explained that it analyzed its critical systems with AI, even weeks before the attacks, and that after the incident it re-tested the code with several advanced models, with none identifying the flaw, but the error was found in the interaction between two unrelated submodules and not in the main code or the cryptographic logic.
Internet-connected television outperforms mobile phones
YouTube Hispanic America states that connected TV (CTV) is displacing mobile phones, with a reach of 88% of audiences in the U.S. and 60% in Latin America. Streaming views surpassed mobile in 2025 in the U.S., and YouTube has the largest market share (12.9%), ahead of Netflix (8%) and PrimeVideo (3.8%).
“Consumption time is growing on television, and there are many cultural and social reasons behind this,” stated the head of Media and Entertainment Companies, Juan Pablo Robert, who maintained that the consumption of news information on televisions “is the one that is growing the most.”
